Alberta MP, former deputy prime minister Mazankowski dead at 85

Don Mazankowski, an Alberta and federal politician of 25 years and after whom the province’s heart institute is named, has died. Mazankowski passed away Tuesday night at the age of 85. “While Canadians knew him as Canada’s 4th Deputy Prime Minister, and a long-time federal cabinet minister, to his friends and colleagues he was known as simply ‘Maz,’” read a statement from Mazankowski’s family. “However, first and foremost he was a loving husband, f